Comment by ruszki

The level of dysfunction which is described in the article is really rare. But dysfunction, the kind of which we talk about, is not really that rare, I would even say that quite common, in self proclaimed rationalist groups. They don’t kill people - at least directly - but they definitely not what they claim to be: rational. They use rational tools, more than others, but they are not more rational than others, they simply use these tools to prove their irrationality.

I touch rationalists only with a pole recently, because they are not smarter than others, but they just think that, and on the surface level they seem so. They praise Julia Galef, then ignore everything what she said. Even Galef invited people who were full blown racists, just it seemed that they were all right because they knew whom they talked with, and they couldn’t bullshit. They tried to argue why their racism is rational, but you couldn’t tell from the interviews. They flat out lies all the time on every other platforms. So at the end she just gave platform for covered racism.